memoirs on a rainy day

Dooce appeared in the Today Show last week. Or the week before. I’m not sure, since I’ve been traveling since last Tuesday. (YouTube, SFW)

Kottke mentioned something cool in his latest post: Intellipedia, a wikipedia-like tool for people working in intelligence.

As much as everyone in North America would like to believe that justice is blind, I think that justice is only for the rich. The rich who can afford the best lawyers pervert the cause of justice.

Others do what they can do. What can you do when you can’t afford 120$ an hour? You get justice but justice that has been sold off to you.

I find it unconscionable that people who don’t have the means to get the “best” lawyer end up with no justice at all. Something must be done to change this.

Do normal everyday people actually care that much about this?

No, because usually, everyday people rarely get involved with justice or courts. In my life, it’s happened to me only once. It wasn’t anything big, but it opened my eyes to how perverted it seemed in my eyes.

This allows the rich and corporations to dictate new laws and their own interest above the cause of justice. They can do what they want, sue whomever they want. With the law in their hands, the system will slowly break down. Of course, it’s impartial. At least that’s what you hope when you enter the courts of the judicial apparatus. Judges and juries can be rigged, but at least they aren’t perverted.

However, who has the advantage? The client with the lawyer with a six figure retainer or the public defender?

I have trouble witnessing love. I reminds me that someone loves me as well and that they are absent for the moment. When I see love, I am reminded of the partial loss. I know that I will see her in a few short days, but the end is a lot harder than the beginning.

WP responds to recent news that WP.com is blocked in Brazil.

These are some cool before and after pictures of a player of Wii Fit. He’s lost about 10 lbs. I don’t think that Wii Fit can replace going to the gym, but some exercise is better than none.

The world’s first billion dollar home. (via cf)

A new somewhat controversial clip from Justice called Stress. It depicts a bunch of youths strolling through a cité and creating havoc. The clip was produced by Romain Gavras.

Bill Geerhart writes letters to serial killers and powerful politicians posing as a ten year old, asking for advice on whether he should drop out of school. They all responded. I liked Clarence Thomas’ response the best. Dick Cheney’s wasn’t bad either. Arnold Schwarznegger’s was a bit of a let down. (via cf)

In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy.

If you didn’t know about Morgellon’s Disease, Koantum Matters has got a good primer on the illness. I wrote about A Scanner Darkly and Morgellon’s syndrome back in 2006.